Passenger

Passenger's songs have been described as "mini-movies," an apt description that puts them in the same ballpark as Keane, Snow Patrol and Coldplay. The band, who has opened for the likes of Kate Nash, The Hold Steady and Newton Faulkner in their native UK, will see their debut LP Wicked Man's Rest drop in North America this summer.

When we last saw the band, we were knee deep in some thick Scottish whiskey, so we took the discussion to e-mail, where band frontman Mike Rosenberg was kind enough to fill in the blanks for us.
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Shy Child
What in sweet hell are they putting in the water at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University? An apparent breeding ground for instrument-based electronic music, over the course of the last decade or so the uppity private school in rural New England has been a catalyst for the assembly of not one but two of the indie world’s most sonically daring acts – MGMT and Shy Child. Whereas the theatrical electro-rock of MGMT mixes an homage to the Flaming Lips’ kaleidoscope of color with an 80’s dance feel, Shy Child relies on a two-horse team of drums and keytar (a keyboard played like a guitar) to form a more straightforward minimalist electronic mix without the rock edge that recalls the likes of Kraftwerk.
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The Old Haunts
I was so pissed off at myself. I had wasted a few hours mollified by public television and eating dry cereal. Old Haunts came to Philly two years ago and I didn’t go. I knew they were coming to Philly, but then I figured out they were playing a house party our near Drexel and I actually decided I wasn’t in the mood to hang with drunk-ass college paste eaters. I should have sucked it up, gone and pulled up some wall in the back. Regret is a bad motherfucker.
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